Sheeri and others are organizing another incarnation of OpenSQL Camp in October in Boston. You ought to
go! It’s relevant to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and lots of the
newer generation of databases — MongoDB, Cassandra, and so on.

MySQL just gave me an award at this morning’s keynote, along with
Sheeri Kritzer
Cabral (for the second year in a row!) and Diego Medina, for
my code contributions to the MySQL community, specifically
Maatkit,
which makes it easier to make MySQL reliable, fast, and robust.
It’s an honor to be recognized. And while I could leave it at
that, I’d like to say a word or two more.

The economy, community, and ecosystem that’s building around Free
Software can often be very rewarding financially. This is a great
motivation; being rewarded for your …

Well, if my perfectionist nature were allowed to run free, and if
Peter et al's encyclopedic knowledge were somehow all transferred
to paper, the second edition of High Performance MySQL would end
up being the perfect encyclopedia of MySQL performance. But as it
is, you're apparently going to have to settle for "very good."
This quote by Sheeri Kritzer Cabral, one of our tech
reviewers, really made my day:

I gotta hand it to Peter, Vadim, Arjen, and Baron. They know how
to write a book!

Sheeri wrote a
post (now a 404 error) referring to Maatkit on
Ohloh, which I
have never heard of before. I took a look at what Ohloh
thinks about Maatkit. It's kind of neat. Beyond just the
obvious "social website" stuff that's all the rage these days, it
actually looks at the project's SVN history, analyzes the
codebase, and so on.

It also estimates 8 person-years of work have gone into the
project, and says that at $55,000/year it would …

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